I'm running Elite Dangerous in - wine-5.0-rc4 (Staging) - sometimes when starting the client the screen goes black then just stays black. If I have netflix running on the other monitor it runs for a bit and then stops and then in either case the monitors turn off and say "no signal" and I have to hit the reset button as the system is unresponsive.
Has anyone else experienced this? It didn't used to do it in Proton/Steamplay.
Also running wine-5.0-rc4 (Staging) in Arch.
I don't get the permanent black screen. But it's kind of a gamble as to whether the game launches or not. For me, it seems to be related to this WINE version handing over input control to the client.
In order to get the client launched fully, I have to first click on a terminal or some other app window (I have a dual-monitor layout) in order to keep the game client out of input focus. Then once it's fully up and running, is where the gamble begins.
A lot of times, when I click into the game client to give it input focus, the client immediately freezes, and then crashes with a crash report window. Other times, I get away with it and from then on can play the game and click out of and back into focus at will. I have to unfocus the game client window twice, as it seems to want to grab input focus twice (so basically I just keep clicking on a terminal window until the client is up and running.)
If I don't click out of the game client upon launching it, the screen goes black for a bit, then I get the game crash dialogue.
Also the level of success I have with starting the game depends on the desktop environment. The simpler the environment the better;
KDE Plasma - mostly fails to run
MATE desktop - more likely to run than KDE but still mostly crashes
LXDE - more likely to run but still can crash
A plain Openbox session - most success
It could be that your black screen freezes are a similar type of problem I'm encountering.
When you encounterr the black screen, do you try to alt-tab to a different window? That might bring the picture back alive.
Regds.